ME handball players in 2016: Poland – Croatia. All hands on deck. All of Poland will play for the championship semi-final – Polish Radio

                             From 15 to 31 January 2016 in Poland, the European Championships are played handball. In the tournament there are 16 teams.
                         

This is the 12th tournament for the title of best team of the Old Continent. Title of weapons of France, who two years ago defeated in the final hosts of the tournament – Denmark. Third place in 2014 took Spain. They finished 6th place after losing to Iceland.

Euro 2016 handball is the first in the history of party Senior championships in handball organized in Poland. The European Handball Federation (EHF) in March 2011 set the timetable for selecting the organizer and the tournament. The initial interest in hosting the event to 17 May 2011 expressed five countries: Austria, Croatia, Norway, Poland and Sweden.

Upon completion of the EHF inspections to a vote during the XI Congress in Monaco June 23, 2012 were subject to the offer of Croatia , Norwegian and Polish. They received respectively 15, 4 and 27 votes, which meant that host the championship in the first round has been selected Poland. In two years the championship of the Old Continent will be held in turn in Croatia.

The organization of the championships were selected initially five halls. At the end of January 2014 years ZPRP (Poland Handball Federation) has officially confirmed that the matches will be held in Krakow and Wroclaw. In April 2014 years communicated that the meetings of the group stage will also take place in Katowice and Gdansk / Sopot.

The main round will qualify three teams from each group. Then the teams will be divided into group 1 (Krakow) and Group 2 (Wroclaw).

The program and the results of the European Championships 2016:

Group A (Krakow): France Poland , Macedonia, Serbia

15/01/2016 18:00 France – Macedonia 30:23 (12:12)
01.15.2016 20:30 Poland – Serbia 29:28 (14:15)
01/17/2016 18:15 Serbia – France 26:36 (16:19) 17.01
.2016 20:30 Macedonia – Poland 23:24 (13:11)
19/01/2016 18:15 Macedonia – Serbia 27:27 (13:13)
19.01. 2016 20:30 France – Poland 25:31 (12:15)

Group B (Katowice): Croatia, Iceland, Belarus, Norway

15/01/2016 16:00 Croatia – Belarus 27:21 (15:15)
15/01/2016 18:15 Iceland – Norway 26:25 (10:11)
17.01. 2016 16:00 Belarus – Iceland 39:38 (17:18)
01/17/2016 18:15 Norway – Croatia 34:31 (16:17)
19.01.2016 18:15 Belarus – Norway 27 29 (13:12) 01/19/2016 20:30
Croatia – Iceland 37:28 (19:10)

Group C (Wroclaw): Spain Sweden, Germany, Slovenia

01/16/2016 18:30 Spain – Germany 32:29 (18:15)
1/16/2016 20:45 Sweden – Slovenia 23:21 (16: 9)
18/01/2016 18:15 Slovenia – Spain 24:24 (13:10)
01/18/2016 20:30 Germany – Sweden 27:26 (13:17)
20/01/2016 17 15 Germany – Slovenia 25:21 (12:10)
01/20/2016 20:00 Spain – Sweden 24:22 (12:10)

Group D (Gdańsk / Sopot ) Denmark, Hungary, Russia, Montenegro

01/16/2016 18:00 Hungary – Montenegro 32:27 (16:12)
16/01/2016 20:15 Denmark – Russia 31:25 (13:13)
01.18.2016 18:00 Russia – Hungary 27:26 (14:10)
01/18/2016 20:15 Montenegro – Denmark 28:30 (16:14)
20.01.2016 17:15 Russia – Montenegro 28:21 (14: 9)
20/01/2016 20:00 Denmark – Hungary 30:22 (18:10)

Round index
hours of meetings main phase is 16.00 (only the fourth day of the match), 18.15 and 20.30. The sequence of meetings in
individual days, however, may change.

Group 1 (Cracow)
21.01 Macedonia – Croatia 24:34 (13:17)
21.01 France – Belarus 34:23 (20: 5)
23.01 Poland – Norway 28:30 (15:16)
23.01 France – Croatia 32:24 ( 16:10)
25.01 Macedonia – Norway 31:31 (17:13)
25.01 Poland – Belarus 32:27 (19:13)
27.01 Poland – Croatia
27.01 France – Norway
27.01 Macedonia – Belarus
Group 2 (Wroclaw)
22.01 Sweden – Russia 28:28 (15:15)
22.01 Germany – Hungary 29:19 (17: 9) 24.01
Denmark – Spain 27:23 (11:14) 24.01
Germany – Russia 30:29 (17:16) 26.01
Sweden – Denmark 28:28 (13:15)
26.01 Spain – Hungary 31:29 (15:15)
27.01 Spain – Russia
27.01 Germany – Denmark
27.01 Sweden – Hungary

Final round:
matches for places 5-8 (Wroclaw)
29.1 16.00 4/1 – 4/2
29.1 18.30 3/1 – 3/2
semifinals (Cracow)
29.1 18.30 1/1 – 2/2
29.1 21.00 1/2 – 2/1
Finals (Cracow)
31.1 15.00 Bronze Medal Match
31.1 17.30 Gold Medal Match

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